Digital Business Partner - Strategic Marketing and Commercial

Albemarle•Charlotte, NC

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Albemarle is hiring for a Digital Business Partner - Strategic Marketing and Commercial. This position is hybrid and located in Charlotte, NC. The Digital Business Partner (DBP) serves as the strategic interface between business functions and IT, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable business value and support enterprise strategy. This role operates as a trusted advisor to functional leadership, translating business strategy into prioritized technology outcomes, shaping demand, and co-owning value realization across the portfolio. The DBP plays a critical role in advancing digital, data, AI, and automation capabilities across the enterprise. Technology Business Partners align technology capabilities to business priorities, drive adoption of new digital capabilities, and help ensure technology initiatives deliver measurable outcomes. The Strategic Marketing & Commercial Domain Responsibility is responsible for enabling and supporting technology capabilities across the commercial value stream, including customer engagement, sales, pricing, contract management, marketing, customer service, demand generation, and market intelligence. This domain focuses on improving customer experience, revenue growth, commercial effectiveness, pricing optimization, and business insight through process excellence, data-driven decision making, automation, and digital innovation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Digitization or related field
8+ years experience in IT Business Partner, Digital Transformation, Consulting, or Product roles
Experience working with executive stakeholders
Experience in business case development and portfolio prioritization
Strong understanding of enterprise technology environments (ERP, data, integration, cloud, AI)

Nice To Haves

Experience in manufacturing, chemicals, or industrial environments
Experience with digital transformation, AI, automation, or data platforms
MBA or advanced technical degree
Experience supporting AOP / LRP planning cycles
Experience in value tracking and benefits realization

Responsibilities

Participate in business strategy, OKR, and annual planning processes (AOP / LRP)
Translate functional strategy into multi-year technology and capability roadmaps
Identify digital, data, AI, and automation opportunities that improve performance and cost position
Serve as strategic advisor to functional leadership on technology trends and opportunities
Shape demand before intake through early problem framing and value qualification
Facilitate prioritization using value, risk, and capacity trade-offs
Translate business needs into technology investment priorities and solution direction
Partner with Architecture, Product, and Delivery to ensure solution fit and scalability
Lead business case development and ROI modeling
Define measurable success metrics prior to funding approval
Track value realization post-deployment and drive corrective actions where needed
Provide portfolio transparency and value reporting to functional leadership
Maintain strong executive relationships within assigned functions
Act as primary liaison between business and IT leadership
Provide insight, best practices, and perspective in leadership decision forums
Partner with Change, HR, and Transformation teams to drive adoption and business outcomes
Co-create and co-own annual and multi-year technology roadmaps with business leaders
Connect roadmap investments to strategy, demand signals, and value realization outcomes
Support portfolio reviews and investment governance forums
Ensure roadmap alignment with enterprise architecture and platform strategies
Responsible for enabling and supporting technology capabilities across the commercial value stream, including customer engagement, sales, pricing, contract management, marketing, customer service, demand generation, and market intelligence.